Albizia acle (Blanco) Merr.

Tree with flattish crown, up to 25 m high, stem 80(-125) cm in diameter. Branchlets terete, coarsely lenticellate by reddish, round lenticels, sparsely puberulous, glabrescent. Stipules triangular, caducous, less than 0.5 mm. Leaves sparsely puberulous, glabrescent; petiole 0.9-3.7 cm, with a gland at the junction of the pinnae, rhombic to ob-u iangular, sessile, flat to slighdy sunken, to 3 mm; pinnae one pair, unequal, 5.5-11.5 cm, with glands at the junction of the petiolules, obtriangular to elliptic, sunken but with slighdy raised margins, 1-1.5 mm; petiolules c. 3-4 mm; leaflets 2-3(-4) pairs per pinna, opposite, chartaceous, unequal-sided, asymmetrically (broadly) ovate or ovate-elliptic, 4-17 by 1.8-8.9 cm, base asymmetrical, half rounded/half cuneate, cuneate, or rounded, apex acuminate, main vein central or subcentral. Inflorescences composed of densely puberulous pedunculate glomerules, these clustered on branch-lets c. 1-2 cm long, leafless or occasionally with developing leaves; peduncles 2-4 cm, with a terminal glomerule consisting of c. 15 flowers, pedicel 1-1.5 mm. Flowers pentamerous, bisexual, dimorphic. Calyx green, subtubular, sometimes unilaterally split, 2-4 mm, short-tomentose; teeth triangular, acute, 0.2 mm. Corolla whitish, funnel-shaped, 6-7 mm, tube glabrous or with a few scattered hairs only; lobes greenish, ovate-elliptic to elliptic-oblong, acute 1.5-2.5 mm, short-tomentose or puberulous. Stamens whitish, c. 20 mm, tube equalling the corolla-tube. Ovary sessile, c. 2 mm, glabrous. Pod red-brown to blackish, oblong, straight, flattened, ± rigidly coriaceous, with the seeds in separate segments, 17-33 by 2.8-4.7 by 1 cm, thick, indehiscent, glabrous, valves bullate over the seeds, with pro-minulous to inconspicuous veins, segments 2.3-3.9 cm. Seeds blackish, suborbicular, ellipsoid, or ovoid-ellipsoid, c. 21-22 by 12.5-14 by 16-19 mm, sometimes irregularly shaped; areole horseshoe-shaped, c. 2-3.5 mm wide, pleurogram closed, not continuous between the faces of the seeds, reaching nearly the top of the seed.

Humid forests at elevations up to 150 metres.

Uses Recorded to be one of the best cabinet woods; heartwood durable, with a warm-brown colour and a beautiful grain like Walnut. Used for interior finish, panelling and high-grade furniture.

Can be grown by seedlings. Seeds needs soaking.